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Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2000 22:29:46 -0500
From: Byron Nikolaidis <byron.nikolaidis@home.com>
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To: "Ken J. Wright" <ken@ori-ind.com>
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Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] problem with numeric
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"Ken J. Wright" wrote:
> 
> v6.5.3
> 
> While testing the new ODBC driver I ran into the following problem with
> queries on numeric fields. Unless the values are surrounded by single quote
> marks, the query fails with the message: Unable to identify an operator '='
> for types 'numeric' and 'float'. This occurs in the WHERE clause of the
> query.
> 
> SELECT * from tbl WHERE numfld = 99.125;
> UPDATE tbl SET numfld = 99.13 WHERE numfld = 99.125;
> 
> An INSERT works fine.
> 
> These statements execute ok on float fields, but not numeric. This happens
> via ODBC and also with psql from a Linux console.
> 
> Ken
> 
> ************


An updated odbc driver is available that fixes this at:

ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/odbc/index.html

Byron